Posts: 10

Topic: Fun topics/spamming problems

Having spent some time at Kudar's Star Wars Planet, I have noticed that his fan section, and that of a lot of other fansites, has topics designed to entertain and attract people to post in, such as the "last letter game", "story" game, corrupt-a-wish, and other interesting variants. At his site, these seem to work quite well, and keep members interacting as they respond to each others contributions. Sadly, I feel that given the level of spamming and useless posting taking place of late (double/triple posting, posting on dead topics, irrelevant statements, etc.), that these individuals would overuse them and turn them into spam factories so they can get more stars under their name. Not a problem at SWP, though, as the section with these topics is designed so posts in that area do not increase a members post-count. If that could be possible at the BFFC, within a separate area for such topics...just an idea.

Re: Fun topics/spamming problems

Thanks for your valid and considerate feedback.

I can think of a few reasons why there's such a chatter.1. The "quick post" feature is one of many improvements to speed up the conversation around here. It's one reason I've secluded the post count to the profile page.2. This is also getting much more traffic, like the 75 or so new posts just today, even without more than a couple of links from other sites (thus far, I hope).3. Users here are quite diverse and you're seeing the divide of instant messenging and thorough writing.

Maybe a chat room -- separate from the board -- would solve some of it. Maybe a mantra: "think before you write."

But there are many, many other things in development at BobaFett.com, so any solution would have to come from other volunteers.

Re: Fun topics/spamming problems

The big issue we've had I believe it's errors the the board double posting the same message, and the lack of people editing their posts and just posting a new one right under it. As Balancesheet pointed out.